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Post by clarencebunsen on Apr 25, 2011 11:56:49 GMT -5
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Post by dgriffin on Apr 25, 2011 17:41:13 GMT -5
I don't think Mrs. Dave ever wore a dress like that in the kitchen. I'm pretty sure I would have remembered it!  The problem with most of these "predictions" is they were wishful thinking based on anticipated advances in technology. The technology often came true, but people weren't interested. Turns out that for all the bother, people like to cook the old way, although microwave ovens have been a hit. Then there were unanticipated sea changes, like the Internet and cell phones. |
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Post by Clipper on Apr 25, 2011 18:06:03 GMT -5
Ah the" appliances of the future." When I got married to my second wife, we received an Amana Radar Range for a wedding present. It had browning elements, temperature probe, timers that could be programmed to start at a time in the afternoon in order to have the item thawed and cooked when you got home from work, etc, etc. The damn thing cost over $600, weighed as much as a Ford V-8, was as big as a steamer trunk, and when all was said and done, it still cooked meat so that a pot roast tasted like a steel belted radial, and fish was turned into a dried up filet of leather left sitting in a puddle of juice and water. It DID come in handy, just as the $99 models of today, for warming left overs, cooking a 1 minute hot dog, and for warming baby bottles in the middle of the night. I guess it probably paid for itself, if she managed to keep it for about 15 years. Unfortunately the radar range outlived the marriage.   |
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Post by Swimmy on Apr 26, 2011 22:56:42 GMT -5
Clairvoyance is a nifty myth, but in reality, no one can predict the future. There are too many variables to account for. Often, the prediction is mere coincidence. Why do you think weather people are wrong so much? If it were easy to predict the future, what purpose would we have to live in the present?
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